Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
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Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum

  • Museums | Art and design
  • price 3 of 4
  • Upper East Side
  • Recommended
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Time Out says

While the Guggenheim’s collection of modern art works is certainly impressive, it is impossible to separate the museum’s contents from its form with architect Frank Lloyd Wright’s brilliant and controversial design. Opened in 1959 on Fifth Ave across from Central Park, just months after Wright’s death, the concrete inverted ziggernaut (a Babylonian step pyramid), stomped on the expectations and tradition of clean square galleries exemplified and cherished by the neighboring Upper East Side museums, like the nearby Metropolitan Museum. Instead Wright combined his use of geometric shapes and nature, to create a gallery space that presented art along a flowing, winding spiral, much like a nautilus shell, with little in the way of walls to separate artists, ideas or time periods.

Best experienced as Wright intended by taking the elevator to the top of the museum and following the gentle slope down, the art is revealed at different angles along the descent and across the open circular rotunda in a way that even the most well known Monet landscape might seem like a revelation. Make sure to take a break from the captivating main exhibit of the season and visit the small rooms off the rotunda to see the permanent collection, which includes works by Picasso, Cezanne, Manet and the largest selection of Kandinsky paintings to be permanently shown in America.

Details

Address
1071 Fifth Ave
New York
10128
Cross street:
at 89th St
Transport:
Subway: 4, 5, 6 to 86th St
Price:
Adult $30; seniors, students and visitors with disabilities $19; US military $25; children under 12 free
Opening hours:
Daily 10:30am-5:30pm
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